UCMercedHumanities

Please join us for “Belonging through Storytelling”: A Special Evening with Kao Kalia Yang, author of Where Rivers Part. Tuesday, June 9, 2026 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM UC Merced Conference Center @ucmerced Free Event Register here: bit.ly/4wDZ5bZ

Soundscapes of Merced Exhibit at Merced County Courthouse Museum. Thursday, May 14, 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. Opening Program at 6:00 p.m. Live Performances by Tou Long Xiongxaychou, Jesse Gonzales, & Pat Dahlstrom. Free Admission. Exhibit will run through 11/30/2026.

Please join us for "The Satellite Coast: Vandenberg Space Force Base, SpaceX, and Relations of Infrastructural Adjacency", with Lisa Parks. Thursday, May 7 2026 Starting at 2:00 P.M. Location: COB2-295 @ucmerced RSVP here: bit.ly/47QfVtw

Our friend, ReCCES, would like to share the upcoming Community Engaged Research Reception, which will be held at the MMAC on Wednesday, April 15. Patricia Vergara will present The Soundscapes of Merced Project at 5:30 p.m.

Please join us for "A Symposium on Incarceration, the Humanities, and Humanity." Monday, April 20, 2026. From 10:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. RSVP here: bit.ly/4dCNi71.

Please join us for our event today at 3:00 PM in COB2-295.

We’re excited to announce our Common Read book: Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life by Kao Kalia Yang with 10 Book Club Discussions, in partnership with @MercedCoLibrary. Free books are available for pick up starting 3/20 at @UCMercedCFH & 3/26 at @MercedCoLibrary.

Please join us for our event today at 2:00 PM in COB2-295.

Please join us for "Making the Human: Refugee Education in Humanitarian and National Pedagogy", with Ma Vang. Wednesday, April 1, 2026 Starting at 3:00 P.M. Location: COB2-295 @ucmerced RSVP here: bit.ly/4sSbTsJ

Please join us for our event today at 3:00 PM in COB2-295.

Please join us for "Working with the IRB in Humanities Research", with Danielle Benziger and Rhanda Rylant. Thursday, March 19, 2026 Starting at 2:00 PM Location: COB2-295 @ucmerced RSVP here: bit.ly/4sCT24S

"Demystifying Journal Publishing" w/ Michael Allan, Assoc. Prof. of Comparative Literature & Cinema Studies @uoregon; Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, Assoc. Prof. of Communication @UCSD; Ignacio López-Calvo, Prof. of Literature & Dir. of @UCMercedCFH 03/16, 3:00 pm, COB2-295 @ucmerced

Three Merced painters, united in friendship and in their steadfast determination not to compromise their creative values, are serving as UC Merced’s first locally based artists-in-residence. Read more here 🔗 ucm.edu/gj9gpl

Beyond the familiar names, Black scholars and innovators reshaped disciplines and transformed American life — often in the face of resistance. UC Merced faculty reflect on the figures who shaped their fields. 🔗 ucm.edu/m4z4dr

Join us for: "Claiming Queer P’urhépecha Methodologies and Building Queer P’urhépecha Futures: 'From the Community to the Stage'" w/ Mario A. Gómez Zamora, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities Center, Stanford University Feb. 24 2:00 P.M. COB2-295 @ucmerced

Join us: "'When They Took the Seeds, They Took the Land': Indigenous Sovereignty and Land as Principle in Refugee Memory Archives," w/ Crystal Mun-hye Baik, Chair & Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Gender & Sexuality Studies, @UCRiverside Thursday, February 19 2:00 P.M. COB2-295 @ucmerced

Please join us for our event today at 12:30 PM in COB2-295.

Please join us for "Graduate Employment Outcomes in Academic Philosophy 2014-2024", with Carolyn Jennings. Monday, December 1, 2025 Starting at 12:30 PM Location: COB2-295 RSVP here: bit.ly/4mvdAJD

Please join us for our event today at 2 PM in COB2-295.